Thank you for your very kind mail regarding our recordings.We thought we had something to offer the audiophile music lover, but that the recordings we have made would be met with such a positive response in the audiophile community has surprised us. We are overwhelmed by the number of positive mails we have gotten from people after they have downloaded one of our files.
We have been able to pay royalties to Carmen Gomes and her band members. That is the first time in 10 years these seasoned musicians has received royalties, for a recording project. Whether or not that has to do with the general crisis in the music industry or the bad deals most musicians are getting with the major companies, I don't know.
We are keeping it really simple; we split any profit made 50/50.
Maybe the reason for our relative success, is that we had a clear vision of how we wanted our recordings to sound and how to achieve that sound from the very beginning.
Frans de Rond is next to his work as a recording engineer also very busy recording and creating soundscapes for radio plays.
A field in which he is very successful.
He has received several awards for his work ; the 2 most prestigious being;
The Prix Europa 2002 'Ik Zeeuws meisje' (Best European Radio Drama), and the Prix Italia 2012 'Mama Tandoori' (Best Original Drama Radio).
The expertise he has gained with radio plays, where you some how have to create a visual sound stage.....
an illusion of people or things being up close or further away, left or right, above or below, walking, running... etc,
all that happening in a simple stereo field , that expertise is one of the elements we are trying to introduce in the world of audiophile recording.
Frans has developed a number of recording techniques, where by using natural phase and room sound, a unique, secret, reverb method and
good old fashioned craftsmanship of how and exactly where to place a microphone, all helps create a deep, natural almost 3 dimensional Sound Stage.
The difference between the 2 formats, Studio Showcase and Studio Master, is that:
a Studio Showcase is recorded with a live audience present in the Studio, seeing the recording process take place.
In a sense it is a concert but the musicians do take the liberty to i.e. make a restart if they feel the tempo is not right,
or if they feel that a song could do with a second take, they will do so. Amazingly, and that is probably because of the audience being present,
they rarely do so.
A Studio Master Series is a regular Studio Session. No audience present but mostly following our '' no headphones and everybody in the same room'' recording philosophy.
Kind regards
Sound Liaison
